The Might of the WestAn interpretation of the development and decline of Western society. An attack on the Wells-Spengler-Toynbee views tracing the five preceding civilizations and their intellectual and moral independence. |
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... sense , the Jews are a race as are the Westerners and the Chinese , bodies of people formed by centuries of ... sense . Races in the ethnologist's sense do not exist . Races in the historical sense are the creations of historical ...
... sense , the Jews are a race as are the Westerners and the Chinese , bodies of people formed by centuries of ... sense . Races in the ethnologist's sense do not exist . Races in the historical sense are the creations of historical ...
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... sense data as the mind is willing to accept as germane to the image . It is , of course , almost impossible for a ... sense impressions . The history of men is the history of creatures operating in a world only partially one of sense ...
... sense data as the mind is willing to accept as germane to the image . It is , of course , almost impossible for a ... sense impressions . The history of men is the history of creatures operating in a world only partially one of sense ...
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... sense is simply correct in contrast to incorrect.1 Thus to speak of “ truths " is not the same as to speak of the abstraction " truth . " Truth is a concept , but " truths " are propositions , specific , verbally formulated beliefs that ...
... sense is simply correct in contrast to incorrect.1 Thus to speak of “ truths " is not the same as to speak of the abstraction " truth . " Truth is a concept , but " truths " are propositions , specific , verbally formulated beliefs that ...
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